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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend 4.9] hw_random: Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness()
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:50:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019035012.GA2192@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4169224b6858d1cf149f1a73f8a03603fa19076d.1476638125.git.luto@kernel.org>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:06:27AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> hw_random carefully avoids using a stack buffer except in
> add_early_randomness().  This causes a crash in virtio_rng if
> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.
> 
> Reported-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>
> Tested-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>
> Fixes: d3cc7996473a ("hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init")
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-17 17:06 [PATCH resend 4.9] hw_random: Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness() Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-16 21:19 ` [PATCH " Matt Mullins
2016-10-17 17:17 ` [PATCH resend " Stephan Mueller
2016-10-17 17:30   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-17 18:36     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-10-17 21:03       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-17 21:14         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-10-19  3:50 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2017-02-04  3:47 ` Yisheng Xie
2017-02-04  4:34   ` Matt Mullins
2017-02-04 10:32     ` Yisheng Xie

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